The recent news of China’s drive of detaining around 3,500 Tibetan monks and nuns from the Yachen Gar Buddhist Centre[1], currently situated in Palyul County, Kardze Prefecture in Sichuan Province, unveils another dimension to China’s ongoing persecution of minority groups like Tibetans and Uighurs. Looking back at the history of China’s oppression of Tibetans, a similar pattern of inflicting abuse…
Introduction The tradition of reincarnation is rooted on a Buddhist belief system wherein all sentient beings are bound through a cycle of birth and death. The cycle is broken when through rigorous training and practice one could attain enlightenment. The Sankrit term for Tulku is Nirmanakaya. It has been variedly translated into English as the manifested body, incarnation, reincarnation and…
The digital revolution has emerged as a key factor in the rapid dissemination of news and broadcasting views. Within the last decade, social media has replaced print media, signaling a paradigm shift in how we consume and convey information. Due to advances in science and technology, sharing news and information has become less time-consuming, more convenient, and more decentralized. But many…
It has been argued that Beijing’s new confidence in its Tibet policy germinates from the advancing age of the Dalai Lama. The Chinese leadership thinks that the issue of Tibet will eventually die out with the passing away of the Dalai Lama. This shortsighted thinking, however, could prove disaster for China in achieving its long-held vision of multi-ethnic harmonious society….
The CCP rewrites history in order to justify its repression of Tibetan language and culture. In March 2019, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising, the Chinese government released the so-called white paper, a self-congratulatory document titled “Democratic Reform in Tibet – Sixty Years on.” In the document, the Chinese government compared the socio-economic and political conditions…
China’s development in Tibet has multiple connotations used by different economists, such as, master’s gift, boomerang development, blood-transfusions, imposed development, leap-frog development and etc. Economic development in Tibet is also seen as, an engineered development, a skillfully and deliberately arranged by the Chinese government to fulfill their national interests rather than arising naturally or spontaneously to benefits Tibetans. China’s economic…
On 16 April, 2019 a report emerged of an arrest of a Tibetan student from the Northwest Minzu University in Lanzhou city in what is now administered under the Gansu province. According to Radio Free Asia, a Tibetan student named Sonam wrote an essay decrying the lack of government job opportunities for graduating Tibetan students in Tibetan region. The price…
Since 1992 Beijing issued series of white papers on Tibet. The latest one titled “Democratic Reform in Tibet – Sixty Years On” is vehemently targeted to undermine genuine democratic and religious reforms implemented by the Dalai Lama in the last sixty years of his exile. The latest white paper, unlike the previous one, has a separate chapter on “protecting the…
China’s latest white paper on Tibet, once again highlights Beijing’s absolute lack of understanding of Tibet’s History and its unwillingness to read beyond government documents. The paper “Democratic Reform in Tibet – Sixty Years On,” was released on March 27, 2019 to mark the 60th year of Chinese occupation of the Tibetan plateau and suppression of Tibetan people. With a…
Tibet was once all over the world, thanks in part to the Tibetan ability to tell the Tibet story. Some say the worldwide web of Tibet supporters was woven by a book. This will be explored later. In the meantime, Tibet embedded itself in the global consciousness and the international community’s conscience that spawned a worldwide movement for the protection…
The Chinese government is rapidly increasing the role of big data in maintaining Beijing’s technological grip over the Tibetan people, according to Claude Arpi, a long-time Tibet-Watcher and Tibetologist. But over the last few years, the nets in the sky and traps on the ground have grown wider, tighter and more digitized, with the use of big data and artificial intelligence tools. Read all, Click…
In China today, bride-business is source of lucrative income. For example, getting a bride in Shanghai city costs the groom’s family around US $147,000. This example obliquely illustrates the degree of gender imbalance, which can trace its roots from the decades-long one-child policy introduced in late 1970’s. The one-child policy designed to keep fast-growing population under control has begun to…
While the world ponders the horrifying meaning of the two mosque massacres in New Zealand, a silent and consequential struggle is being waged in the mountains of Tibet. The struggle between Beijing and the Tibetan people for the soul of Tibet and how the Tibetans will react to the outcome will re-shape relations between church and state. It will establish…